I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.

It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.

I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.